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Revision as of 22:51, March 31, 2007
James Madison University is a public institution founded in 1908 in the Shenandoah Valley of western Virginia. It is ranked as a top public university in the South and is known in academics for its programs relating to the study of plants and agriculture. It has over 15,000 students.
For budgetary reasons, JMU announced on September 29, 2006 that it would reduce its large number of sports teams. Due to operation of the proportionality test under Title IX, JMU eliminated men's archery, cross country, gymnastics, indoor track, outdoor track, swimming, and wrestling, as well as women's archery, fencing, and gymnastics. JMU stated that its motivation for cutting far more male teams than female teams was to make the ratio of male-to-female student athletes closer to the ration within the whole student population.
On October 12, the United States Olympic Committee sent a letter to JMU asking it to reconsider its elimination of the ten teams.